PacifiCorp Sees Financial savings in a Rising Tide of Renewable Power [GTM Squared]

For greater than a 12 months, PacifiCorp has been engaged on its built-in assets plan, or the forecast for the combo of power assets the six-state, 1.9-million buyer utility will want over the subsequent 20 years.

A lot of the deal with this 12 months’s IRP has been on PacifiCorp’s coal-fired energy plant fleet — how a lot of it could possibly be retired early and changed with wind, photo voltaic, power storage and different carbon-free assets, and the way a lot cash that would save PacifiCorp’s clients.

Whereas the numbers rising from PacifiCorp’s evaluation of those questions have shifted over time, they’ve constantly revealed an underlying reality: Closing a few of its least aggressive coal vegetation sooner than deliberate will save the Berkshire Hathaway-owned utility, and its clients, a whole lot of hundreds of thousands of dollars over the subsequent 20 years.

In truth, the figures are solely getting higher because the evaluation turns into extra thorough and reasonable.